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Monday, February 1, 2016

Complete Lack of Reaction to my Campaign Posts (so far)

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[update as of 2/2/2016. We now have two very impressive comments by friends telling me that this endeavor is hopeless and to do something better with my time. While I do not think that they completely understand my vision (ahem) I am probably going to take their advice. This is bitter tea for me as I have invested a lot into this already. A total waste of my time?]

So based on the reaction I have received so far to my posts on the SIGGRAPH EC, there is absolutely no interest among my friends to support my campaign or to think that this is a good idea shared by many people.

That is actually what I suspected, and what I have thought for a long time. It fits several potential models of human behavior and while disappointing, none of this is a surprise. Either people do not give a fuck about the misery of their fellows and what SIGGRAPH does or does not do about it, or people care as long as they do not have to do any work, including commenting on it in any way.

So far I have one friend who encourages me, and one former SIGGRAPH big wig who is very nice and encouraging and who grubs up information for me that is otherwise hidden by the mysterious SIGGRAPH cartel.

The problem is, without support I am not going to do this. I am tired of being the abused tool of people who want change but dont want to inconvenience themselves to get it. There are more important things to do in this world.

But this is an early response. Maybe there are people who are reading my blog who need time to get the word out and generate a response. If so, do it now, please.

I could not be more cynical about the computer animation community, however.

How could I have fallen in with such a selfish, anti-intellectual and amoral group?

What the fuck was I thinking?

PS You will note that the formatting of this post is different from all other posts, mostly, on this blog. This is because of an ancient bug in Blogspot which has never been fixed and never will be fixed. I do not have the energy to try and get around it any more. You will just have to read my blog for its content, if anyone reads my blog at all, and not for the formatting consistency. I like Blogspot, its free and its useful, but it is far from perfect and issues like this are part and parcel of using it.